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tonight on unsolved mysteries Jessica
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was 15 a cheerleader and in some ways
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much too naive she should never have
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accepted the ride that led to this
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fleeing for her life in a lonely
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Cemetery recently a series of
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spectacular sightings had the entire
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state of Arizona buzzing about UFOs and
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visitors from beyond the military said
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the strange lights were just flares but
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eyewitnesses say it just isn't so it was
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supposed to be a night to relax and have
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fun then a young marine found himself
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surrounded by gangbangers with no way
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out perhaps one of our viewers can help
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track down the men who shattered joffrey
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Remus's wife and dreams the bizarre case
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of Rachel Timmerman began when she
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accused a man known to some as a town
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bully of raping her then reached on and
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her young daughter Shannon abruptly
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disappeared as did three other people
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the common link this man the same man
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who allegedly raped
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Rachel Timmerman also appointed an art
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warming reunion as a result of a phone
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call from one of our viewers
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join me perhaps you may be able to help
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solve a mystery
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[Music]
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Madison County Ohio March 16th 1991 a
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teenager runs for her life she has to
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outrun her assailants she scrambles over
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a fence and lands in a cemetery a few
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hours earlier her clothes were torn off
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she was raped in a car and held hostage
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somehow she escaped now she hides behind
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tombstones
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she tries to get out of the graveyard
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but in the pitch-black smashes into a
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fence post the men catch up they strike
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her face with a blunt object to die her
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name was Jessica Lynne Keene she was
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only 15 years old later investigators
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are able to pinpoint Jessica's final
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movements based on clues in and around
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the crime scene mud on the fence a sock
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that belonged to her an impression of
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her knee in the ground but they didn't
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have a clue about why anyone would want
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to kill her the gruesome murder of
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Jessica Lynne Keene is baffled local and
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state detectives for years Jessica had
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been a popular cheerleader honor student
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a talented performer a young woman with
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goals and dreams
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Jessica idealistically would have loved
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it been a singer an actress
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I guess realistically Jessica was loved
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animals and going wanting to go to
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college to be a zoologist she was always
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laughing always smiling always singing
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always fun to be around
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hey Susie hey Jen how you two doing I'm
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supposed to meet me here in a little bit
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that year Jessica's life began to have
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its ups and downs it had to do with
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being a teenager it had to do with
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rebellion it had to do with meeting her
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first love eighteen-year-old Shawn
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Thompson hey it wasn't an issue for
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Jessica or her mother that Shawn was a
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different race but it didn't bother her
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mother that Shawn had had minor brushes
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with the law and that he was a high
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school dropout I'd forbid her to see
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Shawn and said you can't see him - your
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grades come up but I was concerned we
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discussed her cut you know as far as her
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going to college she knew she'd have to
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keep a good grade average in order to
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get a scholarship and her grades started
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dropping I knew she had to skip school a
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couple times to be with Shawn Jessica
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wanted to get away from her mom she
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thought about running away but she
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didn't actually know where to go and she
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didn't want to be a runaway you're and
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of course she
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threatening you know I don't want to
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live with you anymore but I knew I had
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to do something
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arguments between Jessica and Rebecca
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escalated into fury they desperately
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needed a cooling-off period
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mother and daughter mutually decided
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that Jessica should spend two weeks at a
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local live-in Counseling Center for
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teenagers on Friday March 15 the day
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before she was to move back home and
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just hours before she died Jessica spoke
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to Sean Jessica and Sean end up getting
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to an argument that day on the telephone
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at which point they broke up numerous
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people witnessed this telephone call and
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said that Jessica was very visibly upset
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later Jessica told a friend that she was
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going to the mall she was last seen at a
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bus stop near the center at 6:00 p.m.
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authorities suspect that Jessica was
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abducted there is a chance that maybe it
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was somebody who Jessica kind of knew
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maybe wasn't really good friends with
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but familiar enough with them to trust
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them enough to get into the car not
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knowing what would ultimately happen
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Jessica's body was found 42 hours later
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20 miles from the bus stop it was noon
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on Sunday
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investigators surmise that after Jessica
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was abducted she was held captive for at
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least six hours based on a semen sample
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they believe she was raped two to four
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hours before she escaped from the car
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this is the road here that Jessica ran
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down after she was able to get out of
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the vehicle
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I don't think she had any idea at the
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time that she was actually climbing into
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a cemetery died but that was at that
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point that was her only means for
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getting away from whoever was chasing
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her this is the area where they the
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crime-scene investigators found one of
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Jessica's socks she obviously lost him
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while she was running the suck that was
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found matched the one that remained on
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Jessica's foot we do know that she hid
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behind this headstone that was based on
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the crime scene investigators found her
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knee print in the soft ground behind the
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headstone
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we are pretty certain that Jessica saw
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the light on from the farmhouse and
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that's what she turned to run for when
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she collided with the fence post in the
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back of the cemetery
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when she got back here because it's so
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dark out here at night she was not able
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to see the fence back here and collided
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with this fence post once collided with
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the fence post she knocked herself down
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and at that point her assailants were
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able to catch up with her woman this is
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the spot where she was ultimately killed
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I've never been so passionate about
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anything that I've ever worked on in my
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life the thought of this young girl 15
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years old who had such a bright future
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being murdered in such a horrible
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horrible fashion you cannot help but
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want to do everything humanly possible
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to find out who did this
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Sheriff's in Madison County turned their
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attention to Jessica's boyfriend but
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Shawn Thompson wasn't in Columbus he had
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left for Florida with some friends they
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were only returned to Ohio Shawn was
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questioned the friends that had gone
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with him were also questioning to the
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questioning the examination of physical
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evidence we have all but eliminated the
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boyfriend and the friends DNA evidence
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from a semen sample did not match Shawn
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are the others the group was cleared of
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any wrongdoing but an entire week had
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been lost a trail of the actual killer
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or killers had grown cold Jessica's
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death never stops haunting her mother
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what they they did to her the fear that
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Jessica felt she would do anything to
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get away
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and I can feel her heartbeat running
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through the cemetery I can feel the deep
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breathing she was probably doing when
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she not being the two soon I could hear
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her praying I realized that that was the
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worst thing that I believe anyone go
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through
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[Music]
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I pray to God to this that when she hit
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that fence it knocked her out
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I'm not revengeful God has the only
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right to take someone's life but someone
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does something usually and gets away
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with it they'll do it again
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I know but this is one of the last
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chances we'll really have to find out
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who did this
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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next when a peculiar v-formation of
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light appears over Phoenix many claim
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the Air National Guard is the cause but
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those who actually see it feel very
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differently
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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Roswell New Mexico 1947 a mysterious
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explosion unidentified debris found in a
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remote pasture sparks a UFO frenzy
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official explanation a downed weather
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balloon Bentwaters Air Force Base
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England 1980 multiple sightings of
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strange lights and aircraft official
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explanation a meteor shower
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Hudson Valley New York 1983 to 1989
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mysterious v-shaped formations seen by
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hundreds of local residents official
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explanation an elaborate hoax
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for UFO buffs it's always the same story
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an unprecedented event followed by an
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official brush-off now some say it has
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happened again in Phoenix Arizona
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March 13th 1997 10 p.m. a man named
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Michael christen shot this videotape and
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before I know it an entire display of
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lights
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comes on got a little excited at that
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time and I called my wife and I took her
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about a minute to get over there and it
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was really quite unusual Michael Kristen
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wasn't alone this videotape was shot
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around the same time 15 miles away in
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fact the bizarre lights were seen by
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thousands of Arizona residents that
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night and an explainable series of
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strange bright lights seen over the
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skies of Arizona gets a lot of people
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wondering what the heck they saw not
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surprisingly an official explanation
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soon emerged from captain Drew's sullens
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of the Air National Guard the 104th
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Fighter Squadron of the Maryland Air
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National Guard's 175th Wing was
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conducting a night training exercise in
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the vicinity of the mysterious lights
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and what they were doing was dropping
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night illumination flares over the north
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tactical range of Luke Air Force Base
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and a lot of people seem to think that
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those flares could in fact have been the
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quote-unquote mysterious lights
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claire's it seemed perfectly plausible
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and was widely accepted however there
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was one little problem with the military
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explanation
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they said they'd only dropped flares
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between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. but the most
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impressive sightings occurred earlier
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between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m.
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taken together these highly credible
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eyewitness accounts seem to indicate
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that there was something other than
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flares in the Arizona sky that night was
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it an extraordinary hue of en't judge
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for yourself 8:10 p.m. nearly an hour
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before the military will begin dropping
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flares cross Nicol and his family were
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on highway 89 just outside Chino Valley
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90 miles north of Phoenix
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[Music]
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where
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yeah it's like an airplane I looked out
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the window and I saw some lights in a
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very small pattern and what they really
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looked like at that point was some just
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dim stars several of them in a very
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tight pattern they were white like stars
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when they were coming towards us and at
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that point they changed colors and went
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from white to red
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they were just overhead at that point
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and they were in my estimation not very
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high off the ground I'm guessing a
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thousand feet and there was absolutely
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no sound during the whole time from the
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start to the finish they was absolutely
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no sound I have no idea there was
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definitely five of them moving again
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they were basically on a flight pattern
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of some kind that was fairly uniform ten
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minutes later
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8:30 p.m. 90 miles south a commercial
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airline pilot and his wife were driving
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home after dinner for professional
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reasons a pilot agreed to tell his story
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only if his identity was concealed they
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don't look like fighters that's a show
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formation and I've been flying for 29
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years now and I'm not used to looking up
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in the sky and not being able to figure
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out what I'm seeing I looked at it then
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and tried to make it into an airliner I
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realized again that's going to slow and
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oh by the way there's no noise at all
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and then the next thing that struck me
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is that yeah and why it would his
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landing lights be pointed straight down
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because the lights appeared to be about
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five lights arrayed in this V formation
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with landing lights pointed straight
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down Ross Nichol and his family had seen
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the lights here the pilot and his wife
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saw them here
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whatever it was seemed to be on a
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definite southerly course 14 miles
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southeast of the pilots sighting Ozma
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Linderman and her boyfriend had their
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own peculiar encountered keep in mind
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the military would not begin dropping
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flares for another half hour what is
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that looks like it's gonna crash it was
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very clear in my mind that it was one
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solid craft the lights were traveling to
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perfectly spaced apart and that there
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was a void clearly between the lights
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that blacked out the stars when it came
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down the whole thing just slowed I don't
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know maybe to a stop or at hovered for a
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second and then what looked like one
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solid red oval object it just turned red
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and shot straight up and disappeared
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gone completely gone
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you know I tried everything I could to
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explain them away and I said well it
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looks to me like a flock of geese flying
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down from Iowa with flashlights in their
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mouths 8:45 p.m. still 15 minutes before
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the military would begin dropping flares
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trucker Gary Morris saw the lights
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approximately 10 minutes after an 80
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miles south of Oz Melinda he didn't look
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like floodlights they didn't really look
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like spotlights there was something
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different about him that I had never
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seen before between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m.
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the Phoenix lights had traveled over 300
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miles and been seen by hundreds of
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witnesses Gary Morris's encounter came
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near the end of the first wave of
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sightings an hour past then at 10:00
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p.m. Michael Kristin shot the videotape
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that would set off local hysteria and
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provide the basis for the official
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explanation we got here if you lived in
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Phoenix these flares some of them were
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dropped at 14 and 15,000 feet they
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burned very bright they burned for five
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to six minutes they are suspended by a
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parachute and it's a large flare you
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would be able to see those flares
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I would imagine for 150 maybe even 200
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miles the military says that flares like
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these dropped at night would look like
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this again judge for yourself
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[Music]
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I'm certain that the lights that I saw
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were not areal flares as used by the
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military but I've seen him from the
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ground I've seen them from the air and
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these weren't flares and probably the
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major reason that these were almost
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certainly not flares dropped by the
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military was there there's dangerous so
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they would never ever be dropped over a
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population center
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we saw him travel over a distance of
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probably 70 to 80 miles over about 12 to
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13 minutes and then no flares that I
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know can do that the Ross nickel
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sighting is very interesting because
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involves veteran UFO investigator
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Richard Monson has been on the Phoenix
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case since the beginning they
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surprisingly muster sides with the
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military up to a point he agrees that
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the 10 o'clock event was indeed flares
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however he has no explanation for the
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earlier wave of sightings the
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descriptions of the witnesses simply
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leave you shaking your head because
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they'll tell you that this is no
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military vehicle that they have ever
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seen and so right now we can't make a
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determination on what actually happened
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at 8:30 on that night of March the 13th
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[Music]
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will the mystery of the Phoenix lights
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ever be sung for the military the case
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is closed but for hundreds of
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eyewitnesses the question remains did
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the Phoenix lights come from somewhere
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beyond the stars we've got to learn
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accept certain things in life we've been
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sending radio signals out in space for
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over 50 years now trying to locate
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intelligent life so why would it be hard
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for us to think that at some point in
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time somebody finally answered the call
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when we returned it was just a party a
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chance to let off a little steam but for
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marine corporal Jeffrey Ramos it became
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a terrifying descent into hell a
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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gangbang
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a flurry of gunshots a man left for dead
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not a rival gang member an innocent
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victim he is 20 year old Jeffrey Ramos
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handsome good-natured a dedicated marine
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who had recently made the rank of Lance
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Corporal September 21st 1996 Canoga Park
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California it was supposed to be
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innocent fun Joffrey and some fellow
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Marines have been invited to a party the
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clean-cut Marines mingled easily with a
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diverse mix of partygoers which
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according to one of Geoffrey's friends
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included some gangbangers they don't say
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nothing to us you know didn't pay no
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mind to us you know they're starting to
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trouble with us we just we did our thing
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and they did theirs you know then
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without warning
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thanks for doing Pablo hey he came up to
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me you wish he's not that desperate he
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is a fuse with you throughout that
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[Music]
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then f1 the whole fight broke out just
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everybody was fighting Jeffery and his
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fellow Marines it was time to go this
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was a party not a warzone as they
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reached the Jeep
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Joffrey remembered he had left his
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wallet in the backyard
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his friends inadvertently drove off
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without they could not have guessed the
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Joffrey was heading straight into battle
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on the street destroying a Marine was
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considered a Badge of Courage what's up
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man
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let's go the alleged ringleader of the
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group was a reputed gang member named
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Louis Quesada what's up you know how to
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kill marine huh check macho marine
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somewhat that punk ass hair fool you
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going down
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Jeffery sized up the odds there was only
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one way out Jaffe Rommel never had a
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chance repeated the vicious attack
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lasted less than five minutes it was
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long enough for Jeffrey's friends to
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return they went inside to look for
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Louie Quesada meanwhile apparently
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assumed an approaching car was filled
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with Marines and took aim by the grace
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of God there was nobody hit and we very
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much could have had five additional
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people laying out their dead believed a
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neighbor or somebody was yelling there's
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a dead kid in the street so then um we
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ran over there grabs I'm ready home all
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right
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what there you go
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you could say was like a nightmare
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Ramos Ramallah note the way he looked
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bloody his face was swollen and he was
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just he looked like you know he was
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breathing but he looked like he was just
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dead you know in the midst of the
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commotion the police mistakenly arrested
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the Marines we did our initial belief
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because of the injuries of Joffrey
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incurred and the beating was that he was
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gonna die and even though he hadn't died
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yet we were handling it as if he had
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died because it was that serious
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it was awful just to see him laying
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there like that I remember looking
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through these glass wall that they had
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in the room and I could see him laying
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there
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and he looked like a monster his head
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was bandaged and had tubes coming out of
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his head his eye was so swollen it was
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um his face all this whole face I saw
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him his nose his lip and I thought I was
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gonna die the right side of Joffrey's
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brain had been smashed to the left side
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of his skull he underwent emergency
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brain surgery has spent three weeks in a
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coma
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doctors doubted he would make it I was
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unconscious
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for a long time huh and um when I came
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up I I didn't know anything there's some
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now some things are coming but some
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we're still going though Joffrey
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suffered some permanent brain damage it
00:27:08
is remarkable that he is even alive much
00:27:10
less functioning he spent eight months
00:27:13
learning like an infant all that it
00:27:15
takes to walk and talk I think it said
00:27:20
it's very unfair that job he has to go
00:27:23
to life facing all of these challenges
00:27:27
that he has now while Louis casada is
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out there having a good time and doesn't
00:27:34
even have any idea of what he's done to
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Joffrey or any other you know for any of
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us
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Joffre had high hopes of making the
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military a career but instead had to
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accept an honorable discharge from the
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Marines now every labored step Joffrey
00:27:55
takes is proof positive that he's
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undoing the damage inflicted upon him
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that terrible night I'll think about
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this till I turn sigh so I get old and
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thing and I I forget
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I never remember why I never answer why
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why would they do that
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why why would they just know I'm a
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requesting the number one question is
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why why would they or they do that
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[Music]
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next a young woman is found murdered but
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her baby daughter is still missing
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have you seen Shannon Zimmerman August
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7th 1996 Cedar Springs Michigan 18 year
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old Rachel Timmerman left a party with
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43 year old Marvin Gaye Brehon and two
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other men I wants you out of the car
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though some consider Gabri in the town
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bully he was friendly with Rachel's
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family he was well aware that life at
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don't reach in a rough hand she came
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from a broken home and a given birth to
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a daughter when she was just 17 still
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nothing could have prepared Rachel for
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what she said happened that night Rachel
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later told police of debris and beat her
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then he raped not once but three times
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after a six-month investigation Marvin
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Gaye Brean was arrested then released on
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bail two weeks later that rape was so
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brutal and it took a long time at the
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hospital and the scarring I don't think
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whatever went away it got to where she
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didn't really hardly trust anybody
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unless she already knew them because she
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didn't know who could hurt her again the
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accusations of rape divided the tiny
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community of Cedar Springs but in the
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months that followed rachel began to
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turn her life around she had a daughter
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to raise 18 month-old shell
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a Rachel got herself a job at a
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restaurant she had fun working with some
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of the other young kids there I got the
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sense that Rachel wanted to do something
00:30:47
with her life and she saw opportunities
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out there that she wanted to pursue the
00:30:53
baby is really what changed it all her
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focus was on the baby almost 99%
00:31:02
everybody's just talk for the good she
00:31:05
knew she was a beautiful lady and and
00:31:07
she started wearing makeup every day
00:31:09
after that rape to try to make herself
00:31:12
feel pretty because there were mean
00:31:14
things said that really hurt her
00:31:16
so everything was really it was like a
00:31:20
miracle but as a date for Gabriel's
00:31:24
preliminary hearing came closer Rachel's
00:31:26
family says she began to worry about
00:31:28
having to testify she had told me that
00:31:31
he threatened her numerous times she was
00:31:34
a little scared to go to trial but I had
00:31:38
talked to her about it I told her it's
00:31:39
okay honey I'll go with you I'll help
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you and we'll do it actually she but
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they had reoccurring nightmares
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she was totally convinced that this man
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would kill her then two days before the
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rape here okay you're taking Shannon
00:32:06
with you yeah actually he asked me to
00:32:08
bring her with me she came out to see me
00:32:10
up and told me that she had a dinner
00:32:11
date with some boy she was gonna take
00:32:13
Shannon with her and have dinner she'd
00:32:16
be home in a few hours a few hours past
00:32:21
Rachel and Shannon did not come home the
00:32:25
next morning still no word later that
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day
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less than 24 hours after Rachel
00:32:30
disappeared her father received a letter
00:32:34
this letter was from Rachel and
00:32:37
basically said that she was going on
00:32:39
vacation we didn't know what to make of
00:32:43
it we were worried that it was kind of a
00:32:46
goofy thing to do that it just didn't
00:32:48
make sense here you just got a job at
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the restaurant you're earning money why
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would you need to go on a vacation now
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June 5th we had a pre-trial hearing
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scheduled for Marvin Gaye bring on the
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rape charge against Rachel Timmerman and
00:33:03
on that date Rachel failed to show up
00:33:06
for that pre-trial hearing authorities
00:33:10
say rape cases without witnesses are
00:33:12
extremely difficult to prosecute the
00:33:15
charges against Marvin Gaye breanne were
00:33:17
dropped 11 days past prosecutor Chris
00:33:22
LaRoche became more and more anxious
00:33:24
there was still no sign of Rachel or
00:33:27
baby Shannon then Roche received a
00:33:29
letter signed by Rachel and sent from
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Little Rock Arkansas more than 1500
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miles away dear Krystal Roach Marvin
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Gaye Brian did not rape me when he
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wouldn't have intercourse with me I
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decided to teach him a lesson a short
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time later we made up and I can't bear
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the thought of trying to lock up an
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innocent man Thank You Rachel Timmerman
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I didn't believe it it didn't make sense
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to me and when I got angry because she
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was very serious about pressing these
00:34:02
charges I was concerned that something
00:34:06
had happened to her
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that same day yet another letter arrived
00:34:12
at the home of Rachel's father it too
00:34:15
was postmarked Little Rock Arkansas dear
00:34:19
dad Shannon is doing great
00:34:21
she misses you guys but she's adjusting
00:34:23
to life out here really well I don't
00:34:26
know for sure yet the letter that I'd
00:34:27
receive it was reassuring it said she
00:34:29
was okay that her and Shannon were fine
00:34:32
they had a method of earning money they
00:34:34
were getting by okay and that they would
00:34:36
be in touch with me later more than two
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weeks went by without another word from
00:34:42
Rachel and baby Shannon then on the
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morning of July 5th the still waters of
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Oxford lake outside Cedar Springs were
00:34:49
disturbed by a gruesome discovery the
00:34:52
decomposed body of a young woman it was
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Rachel Timmerman she had been wrapped in
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chains and with cement cinder blocks
00:35:06
padlocked to the chains and duct tape
00:35:10
around the eyes and mouth and then
00:35:12
placed into the lake the autopsy
00:35:16
revealed that Rachel Timmerman did die
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as a result of drowning that she had
00:35:22
been placed in a lake alive
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police believe Rachel probably died
00:35:26
shortly after she disappeared but what
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happened to Shannon
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fearing that the little girl had met the
00:35:33
same fate as her mother authorities
00:35:35
called in an underwater diving team to
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search Oxford Lake but the search came
00:35:40
up empty 18-month old Shannon could not
00:35:43
be found
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authorities developed a theory
00:35:50
whoever killed Rachel forced her to
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write the letters almost immediately
00:35:54
after she was kidnapped then mailed them
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after throwing her into the lake
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one suspect immediately came to mind a
00:36:03
man who stood accused of raping Rachel
00:36:06
the man Rachel was to testify against
00:36:09
just two days before she disappeared a
00:36:11
man named Marvin Gabriel we decided to
00:36:17
go over to mr. Geary incidents mr.
00:36:20
Gabriel was not there but cinder blocks
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were noticed that appeared to be the
00:36:25
same as what was found with Rachel
00:36:28
Timmerman when her body was recovered
00:36:30
from Oxford Lake authorities now had
00:36:34
evidence that was potentially crucial to
00:36:36
their case that they did not have Marvin
00:36:38
Gabriel
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he had fled cedar springs and strangely
00:36:42
Gabriel wasn't the only one who couldn't
00:36:45
be found it seems to be anybody that
00:36:48
knows Marvin has any information that
00:36:51
could be damaging to Marv comes up as a
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missing person missing person number one
00:36:59
Wayne Davis Davis had been in the car
00:37:02
the night Rachel was allegedly raped he
00:37:05
had agreed to testify against Gabriel
00:37:07
Davis was last seen just days after
00:37:10
Gabriel was released from jail
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missing person number two John weeks
00:37:16
weeks was an acquaintance of Gabriel's
00:37:18
who had asked Rachel out on a date a few
00:37:21
weeks prior to her death his name came
00:37:24
up when we were attempting to identify
00:37:26
the individual that might have picked
00:37:28
Rachel up on June 3rd from the Timmerman
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residence in our efforts to locate him
00:37:35
we've come up against a stone wall and
00:37:38
found out that he also was a missing
00:37:39
person no one has seen or heard from him
00:37:42
since about second or third week of June
00:37:45
1997 curiously that was around the same
00:37:49
time Rachel and Shannon disappeared the
00:37:53
FBI was called in they learned that
00:37:55
gabion have been using an alias Robert
00:37:58
Allen
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missing person number three to no one's
00:38:03
surprise authorities discovered that the
00:38:06
real Robert Allen had disappeared in
00:38:08
1995 October 1997 upstate New York a
00:38:14
major break in the case
00:38:16
FBI agents arrested Gabriel he had been
00:38:20
cashing social security checks payable
00:38:22
to Robert Allen days later Gabriel
00:38:26
appeared at an identity hearing in New
00:38:28
York initially he denied he was Marvin
00:38:31
Gabriel he has yet to be charged for any
00:38:33
crimes he might have committed in
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Michigan and he hasn't said a word
00:38:37
concerning the fate of baby Shannon the
00:38:42
hardest part is just not knowing where
00:38:44
your granddaughter is it says it's how
00:38:47
hole in your heart that needs to be
00:38:49
filled we know she's out there somewhere
00:38:53
we just want to know where she is we
00:38:55
want her back
00:38:58
Shannon Timmerman Wayne Davis John weeks
00:39:02
Robert Ellen all missing all with a
00:39:05
common link Marvin Gaye Brean
00:39:08
coincidence authorities believe it is
00:39:11
highly unlikely
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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I'm take thee as my wedded husband I
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take thee as my wedded husband on a
00:39:41
previous broadcast we brought you the
00:39:43
heartbreaking story of Margie Elizabeth
00:39:45
Hamilton in a spring of 1932 economic
00:39:50
hardship forced 14-year old Margie to
00:39:53
marry a man nearly 50 years her senior
00:39:55
life you may kiss the bride the loveless
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Union unexpectedly brought Margie a
00:40:03
measure of joy
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when she gave birth to a baby boy
00:40:06
Benjamin Austin Baker but her husband
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James did not share Margie's happiness
00:40:14
[Music]
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behind her back James put the child up
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for adoption
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even though 63 years have passed Margie
00:40:25
has never forgotten the son who was
00:40:27
taken from her her daughter Lois hopes
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that time will not run out before
00:40:32
Margie's last wish can come true it
00:40:36
would be so wonderful to be able to you
00:40:39
know say mama
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here's spinning here's your sound well
00:40:47
then minutes of our broadcast to viewers
00:40:49
contacted our phone center to tell us at
00:40:51
Benjamin Austin Baker once lived as a
00:40:53
foster child in their home the
00:40:56
information he provided it was enough
00:40:58
for Lois Baker Lane to locate her
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long-lost brother in Everton Washington
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[Music]
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Benjamin Baker entered the foster care
00:41:09
system at 18 months old and grew up just
00:41:11
outside of Atlanta Georgia he later
00:41:15
became a Salesman married and started a
00:41:17
family
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sadly Benny has spent his entire life
00:41:21
believing that his real mother had
00:41:23
cruelly abandoned him recently Benny
00:41:29
boarded a plane for Colorado Springs to
00:41:31
find out the truth after six decades of
00:41:40
separation
00:41:41
mother and son finally embrace their
00:41:44
shared anguish evaporating in an
00:41:45
outpouring of love I wanted this day to
00:41:53
happen for my mom and I can't even put
00:41:56
it into words how I feel I just you know
00:41:58
I am just so happy that we finally found
00:42:01
him I had given up a long time ago that
00:42:06
I'd ever see them so it feels great it's
00:42:10
you know it's something I never imagined
00:42:12
would ever happen
00:42:17
I tried so many years to find him that I
00:42:22
prayed a lot that it would happen I'm
00:42:26
just glad that I got to see him and he's
00:42:30
well and happy and that we can be
00:42:35
together before my time comes
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[Music]
00:42:51
for every mystery there is someone
00:42:54
somewhere who knows the truth perhaps
00:42:57
it's you join me next time for unsolved
00:43:02
mysteries
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